“No unblinkered, gloveless reader can resist the stream of associations unleashed by Ford’s story and the rest of Trampoline: influences as disparate as science fiction, magic realism, pulp, and Twilight Zone morality plays.”– Village Voice

“In short, Trampoline is yet another unique source of powerful, exciting, new approaches to fantasy and interstitial fiction. It is flexible enough and fresh enough that I hope it proves to be the beginning of a series. It occupies its own rather beautifully fragile place in the fantastical fiction milieu.”
– Jeff VanderMeer, Locus Online

“The editor should be commended, not only for an intriguing compilation…but that she manages to stay out of the way of it. The only thing that intrudes here is her taste in the story selection and ordering. There’s no tiresome manifesto here, no chest-beating about movements or genres or rants against publishing mediocrity and how some merry band of rogues is going to revolutionize anything. She understands that the role of editor is to let the work speak for itself.”
– SF Site

For a mere $17 you and your friends around the world can read the finest fiction we’ve been able to find collected in one solid, easy to throw across the room, bouncy package.

Story selections have appeared (and maybe disappear) online. A roundtable interview is now bouncing across hypertext. All over the country home insurance companies will inquire, “Do you have a Trampoline?”

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Ok, but who are these people? — photos, biographies, links to websites and blogs, news on
trampolining activities (parties and readings?), and maybe some other bouncy fun.

T he little creek behind my trailer in Kentucky is called Frankum Branch.R amnath Mishra’s life changed forever one morning,A ll this started when my father told my mother she was a waste.M argaret, do you see the leaves?P ristine silence was the law in the gleaming white halls of The Center for the Reification of Actual Probability.O ne day when I was in the first grade Scott Arnold told me he was going to wash my face with snow on my way home from school.L ately, Walter has been hard to live with.I t’s the start of a brand new life, Johnny.”N b. No story begins with the letter N. Is that odd? Should we be worried?E xclusion Rights for minors?

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A partial index of this anthology.
A poem, not connected to this anthology.

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